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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada?
Date: 1999/03/11
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Date: 1999-03-11T00:00:00+00:00
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Thanks Georg, I've managed to grab it.  The problem now is that, although it
is supplied as source code (Ada 83), it is supplied partially krunched (all
unnecessary whitespace removed, all upper case, no comments, etc.), which is
fine for compile-and-go, but nearly useless if someone wants to modify it
(as I do).  Grrrrrr.  I shall take a little look at Norm's spidery web, next
time I visit CTAN.

Next question: is there any kind of TeX implementation (partial, rough
sketches, anything) in Ada (openly available)?

Also, how outrageous/foolish/infeasible would it be to invent a new,
smoothly combined, text formatting and literate programming language for the
purpose of being: (a) a literate programming vehicle for Ada, where most
users are likely to be totally new to literate programming; (b) itself
written in Ada; (c) readily maintainable, adaptable, and portable?  Does
something already exist that would be well suited to (be adapted to) this
role?

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Nick Roberts
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Georg Bauhaus wrote in message <7c5up1$gf7$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (in
comp.lang.ada) ...
|Nick Roberts (Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
|: I would like to find out more about AWEB (a literate programming tool for
|: Ada), but I can't get through to the literate programming archive, and I
|: can't find any reference to AWEB elsewhere.  Any help welcome.
|
|You can obtain it from CTAN, web directory.
|If it has not changed during the last 2 years, it covers Ada 83.
|It is based on D.E.Knuth's WEB.
|gnatchop is quite helpful for installation.
|
|An alternative is Norman Ramseys spidery web, same place.
|
|-#- georg

PS: it turns out AWEB is Ada (written in); perhaps there is another AWEB for
APL?